The game contains educational mini-games targeted at preschoolers and designed to teach basic math, language, and logic skills.
It was part of the Skill Builder series, along with Fraction Factory, Match Maker, and Piece of Cake.
[1][2] By April 6, 1985, Early Games had maintained an 18-week streak on the Billboard charts for Top Educational Software.
[4] By August of that year, the game would spend a total of 36 weeks on the charts, then sitting at #3.
[6] PC Magazine negatively compared Early Games for Young Children's graphics to those of competing title My Letters, Numbers, and Words, through it praised the user friendliness of the former's menu, ultimately giving the program a score of 10.5/18.